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sometimes i wanna scream everyday you gotta deal with people you don't like when im stress out i like isolate myself from everyone cause i don't have time for drama things like that wish i never had depression

and you have no control over your mood swings and other peoples views. I hate hearing people say things like "get over yourself" or "your just doing/saying that for attention" I personally have not had to endure that here on EP, but have seen it said to others. it is not the...

that I realize I was depressed. I always was tired, lazy doing everything. Unmotivated about almost everything. Didn't like people, didn't like going out. I overate. I would binge eat in my room. I hated school and everyone in it, I was rude to people at work, and I just wanted...

Maybe I'm a dreamer
Maybe I'm misunderstood
Maybe you're not seeing the side of me you should
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe I'm the only one
Maybe I'm just out of touch
Maybe I've just had enough
Maybe it's time to change
And leave it all behind
I've never been one to walk alone
I've...

Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out...

There is a reason the subject of mental illness is so vitally important to me. I know it intimately. Having lived with chronic clinical depression most of my life, I've learned to deal with it, to function, to manage. In that way, depression is similar to...

because I'm not. At least not right now.
These days, last year, were the worst days of my life. I didn't know what to do with my life, I didn't to go out with my friends, I didn't study for uni and neither go to classes. The only things that I wanted to do was stay in my...

of years ago at a function dinner in Las Vegas. I will never forget that experience because I felt he was a very dark, sad, and tortured individual. He seemed very very manic and unsettled yet also very sad.
He had been in pain for years. I hope he is at peace.

that I better handled myself than I do now. I am destroying my life. Today I saw tears in mom's eyes because she could not see me laughing and speaking about not carrying on with life longer. It hurt very little. I wanted to tell her I wish you hugged me on all those ocassions...

I had a miscarriage when I was fifteen and almost five months pregnant with my baby girl Gianna. It was the most hardest thing I ever went through. It was so horrible. I had an older boyfriend who I was very much in love with. We became intimate three months into our relationship...

If you honestly deal with depression, you know that you "don't have a choice". People who say that happiness is a choice, don't deal with depression. I'm sorry but it's been proven that chemicals off-balanced in the brain, contribute to depression. Telling a person who has been...

I fail at being an adult. I fail at life. I am unemployed, and still live with my parents...I'm 26! I feel like I'm wasting my life away. I want to be like everyone else, and contribute to the world, but I've been in a downward spiral for years now, and I don't know how to claw...

.It hurt a lot,but umm I realized now I deserved better. For awhile now i knew this day would come and I'm okay. I will be okay and my daughter ,I feel depressed because now I gotta work for my own,gotta move out of state and all but I hope God blesses me.

and last Friday there was this black man that let his pit-bull go and he attacked me because the man did not like what I am. I am a 64 year old transwoman and when I called 911 they sent a traffic cop on a 911 call and he told me nothing but lies about what would happen. It took...

or weep. I am not sure why. I do not know what is going on with my life anymore. I do not have any suicidal thoughts, I do not have any major problems I believe but things are just getting harder. The things I have always wanted seem to be so far away from me; so impossible to...

1. Cheer up, turn that frown upside down, think happy thoughts !!
We are of course happy that the solution to our misery is as simple as turning it off and smiling .. why didn't we think of this ourselves? .. oh that's right cos its utter rubbish. Comments like this...

I started to break down today and almost told her I was depressed but didn't get to it. I was upset and trying to tell her how I'm unhappy all the time and I'm trying to be happier but it's hard. She hugged me and I knew in a minute she would probably cry too. She kept telling...

Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out...

Squeezing out the last rays of light. Savagely destroying any hope my heart had dared to believe. I close my eyes in defeat. I can feel my body breaking. My hands tremble, my breaths shallow. Images flash across my mind, awakening old demons. I panic yet and oddly calm, I know...

and was diagnosed with PTSD and Major Depression. My depression was treatment-resistant; fortunately about 10 years later I found an effective antidepressant. I say fortunately, because I know some struggle much longer.
There were days when hope was so far gone and the psychic...

The sweeping hand tick tick ticks, but nothing ever changes. And you need the time to pass. Not because you have anywhere to be; you don’t. You never have anywhere to be. You just need the time to be anywhere but now, here. Tick tick tick. You...

I just heard a story on the radio about a woman who travels alone in places like Sudan and the Phillipines in areas where rebels of all different kinds live. She told a couple of stories of how she handled herself when faced by a group of teenage men with guns. She would march...

this website. People who truly need help are bombarded with other's messages that pretend to care, while they turn the conversation to their problems or offer ridiculous and cliched advice.
There are no magic words to cure true depression. We just want someone to listen, to...

DEPRESSION IS NOT A STATE OF MIND! I am a Psychology major and it completely breaks my heart when I hear someone talking about someone who is depressed or wants to commit suicide. Depression is a mental DISEASE. Just like if you were to have cancer or a physical disease...

do as a normal human being does. If I could just get up, get ready for the world, stop overthinking things, stop stressing for not doing anything and just function...
But I can't. It's a force that's making me not do anything. Making me sit around. Making me tired, drained...

such depressing lyrics. It's why I can't show my music to anyone. I keep trying to rewrite lyrics or redo them entirely so I can make them less depressing and be able to release the songs someday. But why bother? These so songs are like a diary of who I am and who I was. I just...

for next week. I have spent all day crying. I am not ok right now. My therapist thinks I am okay, my doctor thinks I am okay. My husband thinks I am okay. I have spent all day arguing with myself; reasons why you shouldn't kill yourself. I get it, I look nice, dress nice, I am a...

i already have the tools, prepared notes, and decided when im gunna do it. Im still finding reason why i should stop this but i really cant find one. People whom i know dont care that I've been living with mental illness, and i dont want them to know my suicide plan cos they're...

We put on happy faces to hide the fact that we are in fact so depressed, but at the same time, we pray for someone to notice and be able to help. For as long as I can remember, I've been hoping someone would be able to just KNOW that I'm not right, because I do such a good job...